1. Smoking (anything) raises your risk of oral and lung cancers, including marijuana.
So vape it or bake it into cookies or whatever. You don't have to smoke it.
2. Marijuana lowers IQ in developing brains, e.g. children and adolescents. If you've seen the kind of permanent damage neurons experience after smoking marijuana, this is hardly surprising.
Citation pls. Also who says kids should have it? This is for grownups only, same as tobacco and alcohol.
3. Marijuana causes psychosis in healthy people and worsens it in those with existing conditions.
Again Citation needed. We have just barely started to study this. RTFA.
4. Marijuana is addictive. It's a hotly debated point but the fact is that many people really struggle to stop using it and relapse.
No it isn't.It isn't addictive, and the point is not hotly debated. It is as habituating as any other pleasant pass-time, but addictive, in the way a doctor would define it, it is not. Damn near everyone I knew at school who smoked weed, (which is damn near everyone i knew) doesn't smoke any more. It was no big hardship, you just stop. Coffee is actually more addictive, it will give you withdrawal symptoms, marijuana will not. Look at it this way, over 50% of Americans have tried weed, under 5% smoke it daily.
As far as i know the active ingredient is the same as it has always been. You have modern strains of weed that might produce more of it, but so what. We have always had the ability to concentrate high levels of THC into things like hashish and pot oil. The dose you ingest has always depended on what you smoke and how much. Three fat stogies of 1978 Columbian gold or one medium sized J of 2012 Northern Lights and you are in exactly the same place.
Its like arguing that wine is twice as bad for you as beer because it contains twice the percent of alcohol.
If you can't run then swim. If you can't swim then walk. The system may not be closed, but all the inputs are in your control. Nobody is forcing you to eat. Feel hungry if you don't eat? Then be hungry. Everything else is just making excuses.
Years and years ago, when Michael Dell was maybe about 30, they asked him why he didn't sell Dell, retire, and have some fun. His answer was "What could possibly be more fun than running a billion dollar computer company?"
Why is hobbyist such a hard word for people to spell? Perhaps it has to do with the elimination of the letter "Y" from our language. Hamburger patty is now hamburger pattie on 98% of all menus I see. A sign of the apocalypse, no doubt.
"It makes good meat taste like ham."
You're doing it wrong. It shouldn't taste any different.
"BTW, that 155 better be Celsius. It seems high, but any other 155 (K, F, or R) would be horrid."
155F for breast meat is near perfect. Cooked, but still juicy. Some people are freaked out by any hint of pink on the bones. I feel sad for them, but they could cook to 165 or 170 and probably it would not be too overcooked. 155 C would be dried out and inedible.
Actually, our office runs full-on engineering workstations with $800 video cards in $2000 PCs. And they're bricks without a net connection too. What's your point?
We all smoked a bunch of blond leb before Drugs Are Bad class. We all had a wicked fit of the giggles all the way through class. I'm sure the cop knew we were all baked, but nobody did jack shit about it.
The one time I rode a neighbor's recumbent, I found hills are about the same as a regular bike. Because your back is against a backrest, I could push harder on the pedals. On an upright bike once you push hard enough to lift yourself off the seat you have maxed out. The best thing for hills is just to gear way down.
"In the beginning, there was nothing. Then it exploded". - My irony detector doesn't seem to be working today. I can't tell if this comment is making fun of the religious interpretation of the big bang, or is a straw man deliberately misrepresenting what the big bang is.
"In the beginning, everything was in one place. Then it expanded in all directions. And, it's still expanding today"
What? The sonic boom is generated by the passing of the shockwave from an aircraft flying overhead at supersonic speed. It doesn't just happen once when the aircraft "breaks the sound barrier". The shockwave is produced as long as the aircraft is flying at supersonic speeds. Everywhere that the trailing shock wave passes over will experience the sonic boom.
I briefly thought to change the story to Arts guy, it would still be as funny and avoid the stereotype. And then I thought, why not tell what actually happened.
1. It's a math joke. Why have you lumped engineers and doctors together? The amount and depth of the math studied by those two groups is entirely different.
2. We didn't think we were superior to eveybody (remember now, the professor was an Artsman) just the dizzy girl in the front row.
3. "Engineering students and doctors and other professional degrees can't even balance their own checkbook" - citation needed.
True Story: -Engineers at my school had to take 15 units of Arts courses as part of their studies, and Economics 100 was one of the popular choices. We had an Econ 100 class that matched a hole in the 3rd year mech and EE schedule, as a result we had about 2/3 engineers and 1/3 Arts students.
One day the prof, a very smart man with a subtle sense of humor, drew a graph of some function on the board. He drew the x and y axes, a straight line with a 45 degree slope and labelled the x intercept "a" and the y intercept "b". One of the girls from Arts puts up her hand and says "I don't think it should be that steep". The prof erases the line, redraws it half as steep and labels the x intercept "a" and the y intercept "b". "How's that" he says."Much better" says Arts girl.
Every engineer in the place falls over laughing. We laugh even harder as we see the confused look on Arts girl's face as she tries to figure out what's so damned funny. The prof never cracks a smile.
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1. Smoking (anything) raises your risk of oral and lung cancers, including marijuana.
So vape it or bake it into cookies or whatever. You don't have to smoke it.
2. Marijuana lowers IQ in developing brains, e.g. children and adolescents. If you've seen the kind of permanent damage neurons experience after smoking marijuana, this is hardly surprising.
Citation pls. Also who says kids should have it? This is for grownups only, same as tobacco and alcohol.
3. Marijuana causes psychosis in healthy people and worsens it in those with existing conditions.
Again Citation needed. We have just barely started to study this. RTFA.
4. Marijuana is addictive. It's a hotly debated point but the fact is that many people really struggle to stop using it and relapse.
No it isn't.It isn't addictive, and the point is not hotly debated. It is as habituating as any other pleasant pass-time, but addictive, in the way a doctor would define it, it is not. Damn near everyone I knew at school who smoked weed, (which is damn near everyone i knew) doesn't smoke any more. It was no big hardship, you just stop. Coffee is actually more addictive, it will give you withdrawal symptoms, marijuana will not. Look at it this way, over 50% of Americans have tried weed, under 5% smoke it daily.
As far as i know the active ingredient is the same as it has always been. You have modern strains of weed that might produce more of it, but so what. We have always had the ability to concentrate high levels of THC into things like hashish and pot oil. The dose you ingest has always depended on what you smoke and how much. Three fat stogies of 1978 Columbian gold or one medium sized J of 2012 Northern Lights and you are in exactly the same place.
Its like arguing that wine is twice as bad for you as beer because it contains twice the percent of alcohol.
If you can't run then swim. If you can't swim then walk. The system may not be closed, but all the inputs are in your control. Nobody is forcing you to eat. Feel hungry if you don't eat? Then be hungry. Everything else is just making excuses.
"If they flaunt the law" English is very tricky. The word you want is flout.
+5 funny
Years and years ago, when Michael Dell was maybe about 30, they asked him why he didn't sell Dell, retire, and have some fun. His answer was "What could possibly be more fun than running a billion dollar computer company?"
Why is hobbyist such a hard word for people to spell? Perhaps it has to do with the elimination of the letter "Y" from our language. Hamburger patty is now hamburger pattie on 98% of all menus I see. A sign of the apocalypse, no doubt.
What on earth do Japanese motorcycles have to do with missile defense?
"It makes good meat taste like ham."
You're doing it wrong. It shouldn't taste any different.
"BTW, that 155 better be Celsius. It seems high, but any other 155 (K, F, or R) would be horrid."
155F for breast meat is near perfect. Cooked, but still juicy. Some people are freaked out by any hint of pink on the bones. I feel sad for them, but they could cook to 165 or 170 and probably it would not be too overcooked. 155 C would be dried out and inedible.
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Jack Vance had something like this in one of his stories. Science fiction becomes fact once again. (Now where's my hovercar)
brake. The word is spelled b-r-a-k-e.
Pilot G-Tec-C4 is .2mm wide rollerball gel pen. This is the pen you seek.
Actually, our office runs full-on engineering workstations with $800 video cards in $2000 PCs. And they're bricks without a net connection too. What's your point?
Smartest comment so far.
I'm guessing that deep down he knew that the whole "reefer madness" thing was bullshit. Ask any cop if he'd rather deal with 100 stoners or 10 drunks.
We all smoked a bunch of blond leb before Drugs Are Bad class. We all had a wicked fit of the giggles all the way through class. I'm sure the cop knew we were all baked, but nobody did jack shit about it.
The one time I rode a neighbor's recumbent, I found hills are about the same as a regular bike. Because your back is against a backrest, I could push harder on the pedals. On an upright bike once you push hard enough to lift yourself off the seat you have maxed out. The best thing for hills is just to gear way down.
"In the beginning, there was nothing. Then it exploded". - My irony detector doesn't seem to be working today. I can't tell if this comment is making fun of the religious interpretation of the big bang, or is a straw man deliberately misrepresenting what the big bang is.
"In the beginning, everything was in one place. Then it expanded in all directions. And, it's still expanding today"
Like Ray-eee-ay-ee-ayn on your wedding day..
What? The sonic boom is generated by the passing of the shockwave from an aircraft flying overhead at supersonic speed. It doesn't just happen once when the aircraft "breaks the sound barrier". The shockwave is produced as long as the aircraft is flying at supersonic speeds. Everywhere that the trailing shock wave passes over will experience the sonic boom.
That's why you slip a lace card in someone else's deck.
Oh God, I'm old.
I briefly thought to change the story to Arts guy, it would still be as funny and avoid the stereotype. And then I thought, why not tell what actually happened.
1. It's a math joke. Why have you lumped engineers and doctors together? The amount and depth of the math studied by those two groups is entirely different.
2. We didn't think we were superior to eveybody (remember now, the professor was an Artsman) just the dizzy girl in the front row.
3. "Engineering students and doctors and other professional degrees can't even balance their own checkbook" - citation needed.
True Story: -Engineers at my school had to take 15 units of Arts courses as part of their studies, and Economics 100 was one of the popular choices. We had an Econ 100 class that matched a hole in the 3rd year mech and EE schedule, as a result we had about 2/3 engineers and 1/3 Arts students.
One day the prof, a very smart man with a subtle sense of humor, drew a graph of some function on the board. He drew the x and y axes, a straight line with a 45 degree slope and labelled the x intercept "a" and the y intercept "b". One of the girls from Arts puts up her hand and says "I don't think it should be that steep". The prof erases the line, redraws it half as steep and labels the x intercept "a" and the y intercept "b". "How's that" he says."Much better" says Arts girl.
Every engineer in the place falls over laughing. We laugh even harder as we see the confused look on Arts girl's face as she tries to figure out what's so damned funny. The prof never cracks a smile.